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Test-time prompt tuning for vision-language models has demonstrated impressive generalization capabilities under zero-shot settings. However, tuning the learnable prompts solely based on unlabeled test data may induce prompt optimization…

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A major challenge to out-of-distribution generalization is reliance on spurious features -- patterns that are predictive of the class label in the training data distribution, but not causally related to the target. Standard methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shikai Qiu , Andres Potapczynski , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Vision-Language Models like CLIP create aligned embedding spaces for text and images, making it possible for anyone to build a visual classifier by simply naming the classes they want to distinguish. However, a model that works well in one…

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Zero-shot multi-label recognition (MLR) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) faces significant challenges without training data, model tuning, or architectural modifications. Existing approaches require prompt tuning or architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kevin Miller , Samarth Mishra , Aditya Gangrade , Kate Saenko , Venkatesh Saligrama

Prompt learning is an effective method to customize Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for various downstream tasks, involving tuning very few parameters of input prompt tokens. Recently, prompt pretraining in large-scale dataset (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhenyuan Chen , Lingfeng Yang , Shuo Chen , Zhaowei Chen , Jiajun Liang , Xiang Li

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive performance on various downstream tasks by utilizing knowledge learned from large data. In general, the performance of VLMs on target tasks can be further improved by prompt…

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Among the most critical limitations of deep learning NLP models are their lack of interpretability, and their reliance on spurious correlations. Prior work proposed various approaches to interpreting the black-box models to unveil the…

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Vision-language foundation models such as CLIP have shown impressive zero-shot performance on many tasks and datasets, especially thanks to their free-text inputs. However, they struggle to handle some downstream tasks, such as fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Denis Coquenet , Clément Rambour , Emanuele Dalsasso , Nicolas Thome

Prompt tuning, a recently emerging paradigm, enables the powerful vision-language pre-training models to adapt to downstream tasks in a parameter -- and data -- efficient way, by learning the ``soft prompts'' to condition frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Juncheng Li , Minghe Gao , Longhui Wei , Siliang Tang , Wenqiao Zhang , Mengze Li , Wei Ji , Qi Tian , Tat-Seng Chua , Yueting Zhuang

Vision-language models, such as CLIP, have shown impressive generalization capacities when using appropriate text descriptions. While optimizing prompts on downstream labeled data has proven effective in improving performance, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xingyu Zhu , Beier Zhu , Yi Tan , Shuo Wang , Yanbin Hao , Hanwang Zhang

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), e.g., CLIP, learn broad visual concepts from tedious training data, showing superb generalization ability. Amount of prompt learning methods have been proposed to efficiently adapt the VLMs to…

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Large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-training has shown significant progress in visual representation learning. Unlike traditional visual systems trained by a fixed set of discrete labels, a new paradigm was introduced in…

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Contrastive vision-language models like CLIP have shown great progress in transfer learning. In the inference stage, the proper text description, also known as prompt, needs to be carefully designed to correctly classify the given images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tony Huang , Jack Chu , Fangyun Wei

Vision-language models such as CLIP are pretrained on large volumes of internet sourced image and text pairs, and have been shown to sometimes exhibit impressive zero- and low-shot image classification performance. However, due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Omiros Pantazis , Gabriel Brostow , Kate Jones , Oisin Mac Aodha

Large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-trained models provide the zero-shot model achieving competitive performance across a range of image classification tasks without requiring training on downstream data. Recent works have confirmed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Giung Nam , Byeongho Heo , Juho Lee

In the era of foundation models, CLIP has emerged as a powerful tool for aligning text & visual modalities into a common embedding space. However, the alignment objective used to train CLIP often results in subpar visual features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mohamed Fazli Imam , Rufael Fedaku Marew , Jameel Hassan , Mustansar Fiaz , Alham Fikri Aji , Hisham Cholakkal

Prompt tuning is a parameter-efficient way to deploy large-scale pre-trained models to downstream tasks by adding task-specific tokens. In terms of vision-language pre-trained (VLP) models, prompt tuning often requires a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiong Wu , Shubin Huang , Yiyi Zhou , Pingyang Dai , Annan Shu , Guannan Jiang , Rongrong Ji

Generative vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive performance in zero-shot vision-language tasks like image captioning and visual question answering. However, improving their zero-shot reasoning typically requires second-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Rongjie Li , Yu Wu , Xuming He

In unsupervised adaptation for vision-language models such as CLIP, pseudo-labels derived from zero-shot predictions often exhibit significant noise, particularly under domain shifts or in visually complex scenarios. Conventional…

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